Biomass Program Welcomes New Program Manager Paul Bryan

October 5, 2010

On September 27, Paul Bryan joined the Biomass Program as its new Program Manager. Paul spent 15 years at Chevron and for the last four years, he led their Biofuels Business Unit as Vice President of Technology, where he was responsible for building and managing the biofuels technology portfolio internally and through external collaborations with universities, national labs, and companies large and small. A chemical engineer by training, Paul holds a B.S. from Penn State University, a Ph.D. from Berkeley, and did post-doc work at the Ecole des Mines in Paris. He has also taught chemical engineering at MIT and the Colorado School of Mines.

"The Biomass Program has a singular opportunity to
sustainably transform our renewable, non-food, domestic biomass resources into
cost-competitive, high-performance biofuels, biopower, and biomaterials," said
Paul. "Through targeted research,
development, and demonstration with our public and private partners, we hope to
secure for our nation the benefits an expanding bioindustry can bring energy
security, rural economic development, greenhouse gas reductions, an improved
balance of trade, stabilization of fuel prices, and American jobs. There are also pitfalls — economic,
environmental, and social —in the
implementation of major new biomass-based industries. Some have exaggerated
those risks, but they are real, and to avoid them we need the very best
science, technology, and analysis. The Biomass Program partners with National
Labs, industry, academia, and other government agencies to ensure that those
needs are met."